Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (www.theverge.com)
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the popular movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the two companies announced on Wednesday....
Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose Use of I.V.F. as ‘Fetal Personhood’ Gains Momentum (www.nytimes.com)
Joey Chestnut out of 2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest over deal with rival brand (sports.yahoo.com)
Joey Chestnut, a legendary competitive eater and 16-time Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest champion, has been banned from the 2024 contest due to a new deal with rival brand Impossible Foods....
Judge calls DeSantis ban on transgender care unconstitutional (www.washingtonpost.com)
A federal judge blocked most of a law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® that strictly limited transgender health care for adults and banned it completely for children....
Claims of rigged system by convict Trump and allies ‘threaten rule of law’ (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-prosecutors and historians warn that Republicans’ parroting of ex-president’s wild allegations of political bias could erode trust and lead to violence...
Jan. 6 Rioter Running for Congress Storms Out of Debate (www.thedailybeast.com)
Democratic-leaning doctors flex political muscle over abortion restrictions (www.axios.com)
In Ohio, doctors have worked to pass a ballot measure that enshrined reproductive rights into the state’s constitution. In Texas, they’ve battled in court over a narrow exception to the state’s abortion ban....
More chaos at The Washington Post as the publisher’s ethics are questioned - Poynter (www.poynter.org)
Denmark’s Prime Minister Is Attacked in Copenhagen Square (www.nytimes.com)
Edit: it seems like the NYT missed the mark on this one....
Boeing Starliner launches for the first time carrying NASA astronauts to the ISS (www.cnbc.com)
Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI (www.cnbc.com)
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NASA’s Hubble Temporarily Pauses Science - NASA Science (science.nasa.gov)
Biden Uses Trump 'Muslim Ban' Maneuver to Cap Asylum Seekers (www.msn.com)
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order to restrict asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, using a controversial regulation last introduced by his predecessor....
70 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at San Francisco Israeli Consulate (www.cbsnews.com)
Holocaust museums debate what to say about the Israel-Hamas war (www.straitstimes.com)
Black scholars criticize white writer's 'dehumanizing' use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations (www.cbc.ca)
A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online....
Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere (apnews.com)
The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way....
It’s a summer of playing hooky: feeling pressured not to take their earned vacation, Americans are finding a loophole (fortune.com)
Paywall removed...
A nurse honored for compassion is fired after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in speech (apnews.com)
Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza....
U.S. workers are less satisfied with nearly every aspect of their jobs than they were a year ago, survey finds (www.cnbc.com)
Atlanta police surveil people opposing ‘Cop City’: ‘There’s this constant stalking feeling’ (www.theguardian.com)
Atlanta police have been carrying out around-the-clock surveillance in several neighborhoods for months, on people and houses linked to opposition against the police training center colloquially known as “Cop City”....
Rulings highlight how Trump’s classified documents case could have gone differently had it been brought in DC | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Before indicting Donald Trump last year for allegedly mishandling classified documents, federal prosecutors had to decide where to bring the charges: Washington, DC, or Florida....
Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)
A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....
U.S. screens record 2.95 million airline passengers in single day (www.nbcnews.com)
The TSA said Friday’s travel broke a record set in November of nearly 2.91 million air passengers screened....
Man is fined after trying to 'body slam' killer whale (www.nbcnews.com)
A New Zealand man has been fined over a social media video in which he tries to “body slam” an orca swimming next to his boat, in what officials called “stupid” and “extremely irresponsible” behavior....
